Bias Awareness Education for Texas Judges & Lawyers

Several judges, in Harris County, Texas, have been working with the Houston Bar Association to spread the important effort of Bias Awareness Education, across Texas and throughout the legal profession statewide, to help make sure justice is truly just in every county, community and courtroom, in Texas. 

The Texas Coalition of Black Democrats supports their efforts, this initiative and its goal.

Going forward into the 2022 election cycle and beyond, The Coalition and it’s chapters, as a part of our screening and endorsement process, will be evaluating incumbent judges and all judicial candidates across the state, from Justices of the Peace (JPs), County Courts at Law, District Courts-Civil, Criminal Law, Probate & Family Law-to the Courts of Appeals, the Texas Supreme Court and the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals, to see if they have taken the training and have required attorneys (or will for non-incumbents) to take the training to be eligible for appointments in their court. Leadership matters. It is no longer what you say or promise. It’s now all about what you have done.

“Words are wonderful but deeds are divine.”

Elected officials, including judges, are going to be held accountable, by The Coalition, on whether or not they are working to advance justice and expand access to prosperity, for all Texans, or just simply being a part of the machinery grinding down communities of color by sustaining and expanding the criminalization of poverty.

District Attorneys, County Attorneys and Attorney General candidates will also be evaluated on their commitment to and participation in bias awareness education.

The Coalition will also be working with the Texas Democratic Party and all our county parties to adopt similar training.

You don’t end hate, bias and discrimination by ignoring it and outlawing the discussion of slavery and racism, in our schools. That kind of action is not just partisan ideology, it’s ahistorical and idiotic.

If you want a better Texas, we have to talk to each other and confront the challenges of hate, bias and discrimination together, as best we can.

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Hon. Robinson is the former Chairman, City of Houston Transportation, Technology and Infrastructure Committee; Former Vice Chairman, Houston-Galveston Area Council Transportation Policy Council (H-GAC TPC) and Associate Professor of Public Administration, Barbara Jordan-Mickey Leland School of Public Affairs, Texas Southern University.